MediaTek develops custom chips for Meta’s AR glasses, aiming to replace Qualcomm

As XR, VR and AR devices receive more and more attention, more and more chip manufacturers and equipment manufacturers have begun to work in this field, launching a variety of new products and technologies.

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Today, according to relevant media reports, MediaTek held a summit forum in the United States this Friday and announced that it would cooperate with Meta Company to jointly develop Meta×Ray-Ban smart glasses chips, aiming to replace Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1 Gen1 chip.

MediaTek has long been committed to developing low-power, high-performance SoCs. The focus of this cooperation with Meta is to jointly create customized chips specially designed for AR smart glasses to meet the requirements of lightweight and compact devices. The cooperative product Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses is expected to be launched in the future.

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According to previous reports, Meta not only announced the Quest3 headset at the previous Connect event, but also cooperated with EssilorLuxottica to launch new Ray-Ban × Meta smart glasses, starting at US$299, approximately RMB 2,156. .

The overall appearance of the smart glasses is very much like sunglasses. The right side is equipped with a 12-megapixel camera, which can take photos and record 1080P videos. The corresponding LED light on the left side reminds others that the video is being recorded.

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The first-generation Ray-Ban Storie smart glasses are equipped with 5 million pixels and can shoot up to 2592×1984 pixels; while the new glasses can shoot 3024×4032 pixels.

In terms of video, the first-generation Ray-Ban Storie smart glasses can only shoot 1184×1184 resolution 30fps video and only have 4GB onboard storage; while the new glasses can shoot 1080P/60fps video and have 32GB built-in storage.

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The smart glasses have 5 built-in microphones that can record spatial audio, including a receiver hidden in the nose to improve voice quality during calls. The new glasses are also equipped with better speakers, and officials say the volume has increased by 50% compared to the previous generation.

The cooperation between Qualcomm and Meta is not limited to this product. Meta also released the Quest 3 head display before.

The starting price of Quest 3 is US$499.99, which is about RMB 3,652, which is US$200 higher than the previous generation. However, the new product uses a more powerful Qualcomm chip, a better screen, and supports the "color perspective" function. Shipped on October 10th.

It is reported that this product is equipped with a Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 chip and built-in 8GB of memory. Meta said that its graphics performance is twice that of Quest 2, and even better than Quest Pro running the previous generation XR2 chip.

With the improvement in performance, Quest 3 is still a main game headset. All games in Quest 2 can be played on the new headset, including "Roblox", "Assassin's Creed Nexus" and "Asgard". Games such as "Wrath of Germany 2" will also be available on new devices.

After this news appeared, it can be seen that MediaTek and Qualcomm have started to compete in the processors of mobile phones and head-mounted display devices. As for the products, interested friends still need to pay attention.

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